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If the axis on which the Earth is spinning. one revolution per day, were perfectly vertical there would be no seasons. The sun would be over the Equator at all times night and day, summer and winter. However the Earth's axis is tilted. This means that during one year, as the Earth goes round the Sun, the Sun is only over the Equator on two days a year. The rest of the time it is either moving north to the Tropic of Cancer and back or south to the Tropic of Capricorn and back. So someone in England or USA would have the smallest,shortest shadow on the day the Sun was above the Tropic of Cancer (Midsummer Day) and the longest when the Sun was over the Tropic of Capricorn (Midwinter Day). The opposite would apply for an Australian.

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